The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs

Essays in Honour of Adrien-Claude Zoller

Bertrand Ramcharan, Rachel Brett, Ann Marie Clark, Penny Parker (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

1064 Seiten

2022
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-51677-9 (ISBN)

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This book focuses, for the first time ever, on the protection roles of human rights NGOs since the establishment of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also looks at how NGOs are responding to future challenges such as artificial Intelligence, robots in armed conflicts, digital threats, and the protection of human rights in outer space. Written by leading NGO human rights practitioners from different parts of the world, it sheds light on the multiple roles of the leading pillar of the global human rights movement, the Non-Governmental Organizations.

Bertrand Ramcharan, formerly Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, has performed the functions of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Rachel Brett, has been Quaker Human Rights Representative to the UN in Geneva for several decades. A leading human rights practitioner, she is presently President of Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE). Ann Marie Clark, Professor at Purdue University, Indiana, is the author of books on Amnesty International and on Demands for Justice: The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice. Penny Parker, a Board member of Geneva for Human Rights, has practised international human rights law for several decades.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List Figures and Tables

Contributors

Introduction

Bertrand Ramcharan

1 Adrien-Claude Zoller A Tribute

Alain Dick, Penny Parker, and Bertrand Ramcharan

2 The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Developing and Protecting Human Rights

Ann Marie Clark and Paul Janssen Danyi

3 Protection ngo s in the Age of Neurotechnology

Jared Genser and Stephanie Herrmann

4 ngo s and the Responsibility to Protect

Kurt Mills

5 ngo s Powerful Agents of Change

Fay Y. Parris, Esq. and Simisola M. Adeosun

6 Human Rights Protection in Emergency Situations The Need for Synergy between the Human Rights and Humanitarian Communities

Laurie S. Wiseberg

7 Civil Society and the UN Human Rights System

Rosa Freedman and Samuel Gordon

8 Statement By Forty-Six ngo s on Problems Experienced in the UN Human Rights Council

9 Joint Declaration on Protecting and Supporting Civil Society at Risk

10 The International Commission of Jurists and the UN Human Rights System Advocating for the Progressive Development of International Human Rights Law, Standards and Mechanisms

Ian Seiderman and Massimo Frigo

11 The Role of Human Rights ngo s in Strengthening the Protection Mandates of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies

Anna-Karin Holmlund

12 The Role of an ngo Representative in Advocating for the Responsibility to Protect at the UN

Christine Caldera, and Elisabeth Pramendorfer

13 The Roles of ngo s in the UN Human Rights System The Case of South Asian ngo s

Samuel Jayakumar

14 African Civil Society and the Struggle for Human Rights

Bertrand Ramcharan

15 ngo s in the African Commission The Role of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

Marshall Conley and Hannah Forster

16 ngo Strategy for Oversight of Human Rights in a Constitutional Regime The Colombian Case before the Commission on Human Rights

Gustavo Gallon

17 The Guyana Human Rights Association and the Struggle for Justice in Guyana

Bertrand Ramcharan

18 Reflections of an ngo Advocate on Justice Deficit Systemic Disorder (jdsd) as a Threat to the Global Human Rights Project

Basil Fernando

19 Tibet at the United Nations Perspective of an Eye-Witness

Christa Meindersma

20 Non-Governmental Organization’s Efforts at the United Nationsto Promote Human Rights in North Korea

David Hawk

21 Securing the Rights of 65,000 Chakmas and Hajongs in India a Country of 1.4 Billion People

Suhas Chakma

22 Developing Strategies to Protect ngo Human Rights Defenders

Roberta Cohen

23 ‘International Memorial’ Human Rights Protection, Public Education, and Historical Truth in Russia

Tanya Smith

24 Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons

Roberta Cohen

25 The Role of Non-governmental Organisations in Dealing with Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Argentina and Chile

Thomas E. McCarthy

26 Amnesty International’s Policy Submissions to the UN Secretary-General From the Archives

27 Human Rights Watch on Accountability for Past Human Rights Abuses From the Archives

28 ngo s in Action for Protection Jacob Blaustein Institute Urgent Appeal for a More Robust International Response to Russia’s Invasion of and Human Rights Violations in Ukraine

29 Getting Human Rights into the United Nations Charter Successful ngo Advocacy at the San Francisco Conference

Felice Gaer

30 ngo s and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Recalling William Korey’s Study

Inès French

31 ngo s and the Commission on Human Rights The Roots of an Essential Partnership

John P. Pace

32 At the Service of Human Rights ngo s and Defenders in the United Nations

Adrien-Claude Zoller

33 The International Service for Human Rights and the Recognition, Participation and Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Phil Lynch and Madeleine Sinclair

34 ngo Written Submissions to the UN Commission on Human Rights From the Archives

Maryna Yazianok

35 “ngo Involvement Crucial in Promoting Human Rights, UN Official Says” From the Archives

36 Human Rights ngo s and the U.N. The Canadian Experience

Daniel Livermore

37 ngo s’ Contribution to the Work of the Independent Experts

Emmanuel Decaux

38 Courageous Leaders and ngo Initiatives

Hans Thoolen

39 ngo s, the 1993 Vienna World Conference, and the Consolidation of a Global Human Rights Movement Some Personal Recollections

Christian Strohal

40 The Struggle to Establish Women’s Rights as International Human Rights The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Vienna and Beijing

Felice Gaer

41 ngo s and the Fight against Discrimination

Bertrand Ramcharan

42 Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Challenges and Opportunities

Claire Moretto and Nicolas Zoller

43 Quaker Human Rights Work at the United Nations Conscientious Objection to Military Service

Rachel Brett

44 A Campaign for Freedom of Religion or Belief in the United Nations The Experience of the Bahá’í International Community

Diane Ala’i

45 From the Grassroots to the UN Franciscans Building Bridges

Cedric Chatenalat

46 The Preventive Role of Human Rights ngo s

Bertrand Ramcharan

47 Universal Rights Group’s Advocacy of UN Prevention Strategies

Marc Limon and Mariana Montoya

48 Prevention of Torture The Role of the Association for the Prevention of Torture in the Adoption and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture

Barbara Bernath

49 Civil Society Dialogues to Prevent Conflicts and Protect Human Rights in Asia

Robin Ramcharan

50 Civil Society A Partner to Promote Human Rights in the Universal Periodic Review Process

Mona M’Bikay

51 Coming Full Circle in the upr Cycle? Civil Society Stakeholders and Their Role in the upr

Gianni Magazzeni and Eliska Rybar

52 The Challenge of a New Issue for the Human Right’s System

Edward J. Flynn

53 ngo s and Human Rights Challenges of the Future

54 The United Nations and Human Rights

Adrien-Claude Zoller

55 UN Human Rights Day Statements, 10 December, 2021

56 Human Rights Watch and 59 ngo s on the Credibility of High Commissioner’s Visit to China

57 ngo, China and the UN Treaty Bodies

Vincent Ploton

58 The Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group

59 Civil Society and Remedies under Human Rights Treaties cedaw

Orest Nowosad

60 The Human Right to Adequate Housing and Its Development at the United Nations A ngo Protection Role Success Story

Miloon Kothari

61 The Quest for Justice Could a Permanent “Peoples’ Court” Reinforce the Role of Civil Society in International Law?

Ekkehard Strauss

62 Recapitulation and Reflections

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	International Studies in Human Rights ; 140
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	2121 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	90-04-51677-8 / 9004516778
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51677-9 / 9789004516779
Zustand	Neuware